You can help choose the winners! The public is invited to come out for this free event and vote for their favorite acts of the evening.

NEW for 2013: 50% of the vote will be designated by popular vote, and 50% of the vote will be designated by a judge, Steve Daub, a 2012 inductee into New York State's Blues Hall of Fame. Daub has been the radio host of WRPI's Stormy Monday Blues for the past 13 years.

A panel of judges has reviewed applications and selected 10 blues acts to perform: